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The Immortal Story ()

Histoire immortelle (original title)
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In Macao, a wealthy merchant named Charles Clay hires two people to recreate a story of a sailor who is paid to impregnate a man's wife.
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Virginie Ducrot
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Mr. Charles Clay
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Elishama Levinsky
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Paul, the sailor
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Merchant telling Clay's history (uncredited)

Directed by

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Orson Welles

Written by

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Karen Blixen ... (novel) (as Isak Dinesen)
 
Orson Welles ... ()
 
Louise de Vilmorin ... ()

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Albina du Boisrouvray ... producer (uncredited)
Jacques-Bernard Dupont ... producer (uncredited)
Micheline Rozan ... producer

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Willy Kurant ... director of photography

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Claude Farny
Françoise Garnault
Yolande Maurette
Marcelle Pluet

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André Piltant

Production Management

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Marc Maurette ... production manager

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Tony Fuentes ... assistant director
Olivier Gérard ... assistant director
Patrice Torok ... assistant director
José María Gutiérrez Santos ... assistant director (uncredited)

Sound Department

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Jean Nény ... sound
Gilbert Pereira ... sound recordist (uncredited)

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Jacques Assuérus ... camera operator
Jean Orjollet ... camera operator

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Pierre Cardin ... wardrobe: Jeanne Moreau

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Jean-Joël Barbier ... performer: piano pieces
Aldo Ciccolini ... performer: piano pieces
Erik Satie ... piano pieces

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Tony Fuentes ... assistant to the director
Olivier Gérard ... assistant to the director
Philippe Noiret ... voice dubbing: Mr. Charles Clay
Patrice Torok ... assistant to the director
José María Gutiérrez Santos ... assistant to the director (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

The Portuguese colony of Macao in the 19th century. Mr. Clay is a very rich merchant and the subject of town gossip. He has spent many years in China and is now quite old. He likes his clerk Levinsky to read the company's accounts to him at night for relaxation. Tonight Mr. Clay recounts a true story he heard years before about a rich man who paid a poor sailor 5 guineas to father a child with his beautiful young wife. Levinsky says that's a popular old sailor's legend and not true. Mr. Clay has no heir for his fortune and no wife either. He resolves to make the story true... Levinsky approaches Virginie, another clerk's mistress, and strikes a bargain for 300 guineas. Now to find the sailor... Written by David Woodfield

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Also Known As
  • Une histoire immortelle (France)
  • The Immortal Story (Canada, English title)
  • The Immortal Story (World-wide, English title)
  • The Immortal Story (United States)
  • The Guinea Piece (United States)
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Trivia The interior scenes of this movie were filmed at the home of Orson Welles outside Madrid, Spain. See more »
Goofs Some of the Chinese signs are upside down or backwards. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in The Orson Welles Story: Part 1 (1982). See more »
Soundtracks Gymnopedie No. 1 See more »
Quotes Elishama Levinsky: [holding shell to ear] I have heard it before... long ago... but where?
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